U3 yes, but non-U3 portable?

I really love PowerArchiver, just purchased it. I have been getting into portable apps and I noticed the U3 version. What about a non-U3 version for USB drives akin to Portable Firfox and the other apps at PortableApps.com. I would really like that as I don’t have a U3 drive. Thanks!

I really love PowerArchiver, just purchased it. I have been getting into portable apps and I noticed the U3 version. What about a non-U3 version for USB drives akin to Portable Firfox and the other apps at PortableApps.com. I would really like that as I don’t have a U3 drive. Thanks!

reason we started with U3, is that they sent us info and drives first. I know there are some other companies creating host apps for USB drives, and we might add support for them later.

Right now we are working on 10.00 and we definetly wont dedicate any time to anything else until we are finished.

Another problem is that every new version requires us to update it as soon as we update PowerArchiver, and right now we have 40 different installations of PowerArchiver to update :-).

To have PowerArchiver run in portable mode does not require any special drives.

Essentially, portable applications are those that can run without a special installation - no configuration information is stored in the registry - files contain the configuration, and the files are found by searching in reasonable locations until found (something like first look in the USERDATA directory, then look in the directory where the .exe is loaded from).

If PA requires COM components to run, they must be specified in manifest files so that the system can locate them without having them registered in the registry. MSDN has information on how to do this.

Obviously, PA will not be able to be integrated into the explorer shell when run in this mode, but it would still be a useful option.

To have PowerArchiver run in portable mode does not require any special drives.

Essentially, portable applications are those that can run without a special installation - no configuration information is stored in the registry - files contain the configuration, and the files are found by searching in reasonable locations until found (something like first look in the USERDATA directory, then look in the directory where the .exe is loaded from).

If PA requires COM components to run, they must be specified in manifest files so that the system can locate them without having them registered in the registry. MSDN has information on how to do this.

Obviously, PA will not be able to be integrated into the explorer shell when run in this mode, but it would still be a useful option.

the whole problem is that you wont be able to properly register shell extensions or associations, which is what most of the people use.

But, there is portable host software for U3, which is drive independent, and should do pretty much what U3 does - clean everything before and after portable app is launched.

But of course, end user still has to pay extra for it, so it ends up a lot cheaper to buy U3 drive…

“portable” just means a program that you don’t have to install and that consists of just one file (as described in the first post)!

And I know I wouldn’t have to pay extra for a portable version, I just wanted to say that I was willing to because such a version is really important to me!

Just hink about it:What do you usually use archives for?
You use them to transport data!
And to unpack those files you need some application on every computer you want to use that data on, so a portable version REALLY makes sense!
How could you not offer such a version?!?

I REALLY like PowerArchiver, but I have to use 7zip-portable on other computers, so that naturally makes me think about only using the latter…

“portable” just means a program that you don’t have to install and that consists of just one file (as described in the first post)!

And I know I wouldn’t have to pay extra for a portable version, I just wanted to say that I was willing to because such a version is really important to me!

Just hink about it:What do you usually use archives for?
You use them to transport data!
And to unpack those files you need some application on every computer you want to use that data on, so a portable version REALLY makes sense!
How could you not offer such a version?!?

I REALLY like PowerArchiver, but I have to use 7zip-portable on other computers, so that naturally makes me think about only using the latter…

i understand what you want… thats why wishlist forum is for. We will check it out for one of the future versions, we will still support U3 as thats what many people request through support pages.

But I would prefer if you don’t do it as an U3 version, because this will limit the use to only some USB devices. If you would create one package like they do at portableapps.com you could use it with every device.

i have already used powerarchiver on a usb stick without it being u3 the only part i have and the only thing it does not give me is shell extensions but that doesn’t matter. just install to usb and register as normaly and it should work ok on a usb with out shell extensions